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Tur-retur: Episode 11 – Getting through the last half of Danish...

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The Little Viking Saga – Official Language Assessment (Episode 10)

Why My American Family Marched for Greenland in Copenhagen

Tur-return: Episode 17 – Nudity is natural — and no big deal in Denmark

When a fellow kayaker handed me the menu for a pizza joint while I was clad in just a towel last summer, I was...

The Little Viking Saga – Episode 13 – A wheelie big milestone

Earlier this year, The Little Viking turned four-years-old. He has officially spent over half of his life in Denmark. Most of his memories have...

When Integration Succeeds but Building a Career Remains Difficult

Migrant integration is often measured by whether or not someone manages to enter the labor market. But just as employment alone does not automatically...

ADHD Is An Explanation, Not An Excuse.

He walked in the way people walk when they have been fighting for a long time. Not dramatic, not loud, just heavy, the kind...

Beer, Bedlam, and Belonging: The World of Denmark’s Graduate Trucks

The cacophony of shrill whistles and blaring music startled my family as a truck filled with giddy, inebriated teenagers pulled out in front of...

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